The HOK Miami office is making a difference in response to the Haiti earthquake that will reach thousands in the disaster stricken communities.
Last month while listening to NPR on the way home, Sam Ward realized that Haiti was becoming a forgotten tragedy and started looking for a new angle to help and decided to approach his collogues for ideas. In order to make this more than a design exercise they needed to work with an entity that already had the infrastructure in place to institute their design, whatever that may be. They started emailing governmental agencies, US and Haitian, about how they could get involved.
They came across an article about …
Levy Castaneda, an architectural technician in HOK’s Miami office, recently participated in a design competition sponsored by the arquitectum.com magazine. The results are not out yet, but Levy is a winner in my book!
When a debilitating spine disease forced Andrew Reach to retire from the architectural career he loved in 2005, he feared his contributions to the Patricia and Philip Frost Art Museum in Miami might be his final creation ever.
Thankfully, he was wrong.
The fruits of Andrew’s new artistic journey are showcased in an exhibition as part of the museum’s grand opening. Titled “Full Circle,” the exhibition features intricate digital paintings Andrew creates using a mouse as his paintbrush and Photoshop as his palette.
To call it a dream come true would be an understatement.
“I’m so humbled and so honored to be featured in the building I helped create,” he …
